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Wednesday, September 05, 2012

GAO confirms Obama changed welfare to work rules in another extra-legal power grab

In another blow to the so-called fact-checking propaganda wing of the Democrat Party, the Government Accountability Office
(GAO), said yesterday that the Obama regime must give Congress the
chance to block President Obama's scheme that lets states change, some say "gut," the Clinton-era welfare to work rules Obama long opposed:

"In
July, the Obama administration offered states more latitude in how they
can run cash-assistance programs that replaced the welfare system after
the 1996 overhaul passed by Congress and signed in to law by President
Bill Clinton. … 'It must be submitted to Congress and the comptroller
general before taking effect,' wrote Lynn H. Gibson, GAO's general
counsel, in a letter to the lawmakers on Tuesday."

The GAO finding comes just in time for impeached former President Clinton gives the keynote speech tonight at the Charlotte "we all belong to the government" Democrat National Convention.

According to the Wall Street Journal,
the GAO's rebuke of the Obama scheme resulted from a request by
Republicans, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan,
in which they asked the GAO to determine whether the administration's
changes were the equivalent of a rule change that would require
congressional approval. Hatch praised the GAO findings Tuesday, saying
that they were further proof that the administration could not change
the program without Congress's consent:

"This analysis
is unequivocal that any changes must be submitted to Congress," he
said. "Circumventing Congress, as this White House has done, is a
flagrant abuse of our system of checks and balances and an insult to
American taxpayers."

You will surely recall how
quickly the Democrats' now disgraced fact-checking propaganda wing
jumped to Obama;'s defense when Romney said the Obama rule change would
gut the work to welfare reform rules. Now we know that Romney was right
to go after the Obama power grab dressed up as an ordinary "information memorandum."

"In
1996, President Clinton signed bipartisan legislation to reform welfare
by requiring work. Sixteen years later, President Obama quietly gutted
this landmark law. Mitt Romney will restore the bipartisan reforms to
welfare and move our country in the right direction."